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Stanley Kauffmann

Agrees with the Tomatometer 80% of the time.

Publications:: New Republic , New York Times

Total Reviews:: 477

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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date
	96%	Monsieur Lazhar (2012)	" With a few folds, this story could have made a script for John Barrymore, like Topaze, or for Chaplin." — New Republic Posted May 11, 2012
	22%	Elles (2012)	" One of her (Binoche's) lesser choices." — New Republic Posted May 11, 2012
	81%	Goodbye First Love (2012)	" Writer-director, Mia Hansen-L�ve, whose third feature this is, has addressed her subject with complete emotional confidence." — New Republic Posted May 11, 2012
	59%	We Have a Pope (2012)	" Moretti's latest work looks at the church sympathetically, veristically, comically." — New Republic Posted Apr 20, 2012
	98%	Jiro Dreams of Sushi (2012)	" Gelb apparently understood that his subject was itself so taking that he wouldn't need filmic embellishments to keep his viewers alert." — New Republic Posted Apr 20, 2012
	95%	Gerhard Richter Painting (2012)	" A kind of residence with its subject rather than a report." — New Republic Posted Apr 20, 2012
	98%	E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)	" An appealing film this new one is, with some charm, some glee in the childrens' triumphs, some share in their friendship with E.T." — New Republic Posted Feb 15, 2011
	94%	La Nana (The Maid) (2009)	" How discomfiting it is to see a good film from a country that is low on any list of film-producing nations." — New Republic Posted Nov 12, 2009
—	100%	Rembrandt's J'accuse (2008)	— New Republic Posted Nov 12, 2009
—	76%	Our City Dreams (2008)	— New Republic Posted Sep 9, 2009
—	44%	Tussenstand (Stages) (2007)	— New Republic Posted Sep 9, 2009
—	91%	Gomorrah (Gomorra) (2008)	— New Republic Posted Sep 9, 2009
—	74%	Caos Calmo (Quiet Chaos) (2009)	— New Republic Posted Sep 9, 2009
—	48%	La Fille de Monaco (The Girl from Monaco) (2009)	— New Republic Posted Sep 9, 2009
	90%	S�raphine (2009)	" Provost has made a picture that is almost biblical in its simplicity and its passion." — New Republic Posted Jun 24, 2009
—	86%	Lola Mont�s (The Fall of Lola Montes) (The Sins of Lola Montes) (1955)	— New Republic Posted May 27, 2009
—	12%	Showgirls (1995)	— New Republic Posted May 27, 2009
—	50%	Winning (1969)	— New Republic Posted May 27, 2009
	95%	Pulp Fiction (1994)	" The way that this picture has been so widely ravened up and drooled over verges on the disgusting. Pulp Fiction nourishes, abets, cultural slumming." — New Republic Posted May 27, 2009
—	96%	L'Avventura (The Adventure) (1960)	— New Republic Posted May 27, 2009
—	100%	The Misfits (1961)	— New Republic Posted May 27, 2009
	98%	Avaze gonjeshk-ha (The Song of Sparrows) (2009)	" It is somehow congenial to feel that we are watching a tale that could have been told elsewhere." — New Republic Posted May 6, 2009
	95%	Goodbye Solo (2009)	" The overall effect of Goodbye Solo is of living through a drama of huge subjects, articulated in the vernacular." — New Republic Posted May 6, 2009
	91%	Maria Larssons eviga �gonblick (Everlasting Moments) (Maria Larsson's Everlasting Moment) (2009)	" Troell's screenplay, as has often been the case with him, exists for the fullness of its texture, not for dramatic growth and resolution." — New Republic Posted Mar 19, 2009
	78%	12 (2007)	" What keeps the film vital is the acting." — New Republic Posted Mar 19, 2009
—	57%	Defiance (2009)	— New Republic Posted Feb 12, 2009
	94%	Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father (2008)	" A slick account of ancient crevices in the human psyche rendered in cutting-edge cinematic style." — New Republic Posted Nov 20, 2008
	68%	Plus Tard (One Day You'll Understand) (Later) (2008)	" One Day You'll Understand is not exclusively a picture about the Holocaust. It is about a contradiction: human discomfort with some truths and human hunger for them." — New Republic Posted Nov 20, 2008
	91%	Stranded: I Have Come from a Plane That Crashed on the Mountains (2008)	" We are a bit less fraudulently sure of ourselves afterward." — New Republic Posted Nov 4, 2008
	80%	Un Secret (A Secret) (2008)	" Miller, a skilled veteran, reverses the old visual pattern for films with lengthy flashbacks: he shoots the past in color and the (evolving) present in black and white." — New Republic Posted Oct 3, 2008
	91%	Momma's Man (2008)	" Momma's Man is an act of daring." — New Republic Posted Sep 17, 2008
	81%	Obsluhoval Jsem Anglick�ho Kr�le (I Served the King of England) (2008)	" The minor protocols and major assaults of the characters are fused, paradoxically, by a truly lyrical talent." — New Republic Posted Sep 17, 2008
	91%	August Evening (2007)	" Eska, who wrote and edited his film, appears to be at the beginning of a good career." — New Republic Posted Sep 17, 2008
	97%	The Pool (2008)	" A film that is a kind of counter-film, which sets expectations in an environment that supports unexpected results." — New Republic Posted Sep 17, 2008
	74%	La Fille Coup�e en Deux (The Girl Cut in Two) (A Girl Cut in Two) (2008)	" As is nearly always the case with Chabrol, a special pleasure pervades the picture." — New Republic Posted Aug 27, 2008
	87%	Frozen River (2008)	" We quickly sense that the director of this film has unusual perception, and that whatever the story and performances turn out to be, she will make the most of them." — New Republic Posted Aug 27, 2008
	88%	Boy A (2007)	" Crowley gets a remarkable performance from Andrew Garfield: his Jack is a person who carries guilt with him even when he is trying to override it." — New Republic Posted Aug 11, 2008
	67%	A Very British Gangster (2008)	" A Very British Gangster proves yet again that one great asset of film is vicarious participation in crime." — New Republic Posted Aug 11, 2008
	81%	Trumbo (2007)	" It is oddly pleasant to know that such a man once existed." — New Republic Posted Jul 21, 2008
	76%	Une Vieille Ma�tresse (The Last Mistress) (An Old Mistress) (2007)	" Asia Argento, as Vellini, is a firebrand, a woman who is attractive even in non-seductive moments when she is angry or downcast or 'off-stage.'" — New Republic Posted Jul 21, 2008
	72%	And When Did You Last See Your Father? (When Did You Last See Your Father?) (2008)	" What ensures our pleasure is the dialogue, which is supple, and the quality of the acting." — New Republic Posted Jun 29, 2008
	89%	Auf der Anderen Seite (The Edge of Heaven) (On the Other Side) (2007)	" The care that Akin expends on his people is skimped in the structure of his screenplay." — New Republic Posted Jun 29, 2008
	86%	Mongol (2008)	" Mongol has just enough characterization to sustain its own reason for being -- cinematic fullness." — New Republic Posted Jun 29, 2008
	94%	My Winnipeg (2007)	" My Winnipeg is a mobile collage, and its assemblage is fascinating." — New Republic Posted Jun 29, 2008
	92%	Chris & Don: A Love Story (2007)	" The subtitle of the film is 'A Love Story.' The picture makes the worn term fresh, moving." — New Republic Posted Jun 29, 2008
	67%	Battle for Haditha (2007)	" Films about the Iraq war continue to come and, I hope, will keep coming. Among the most recent, The Battle for Haditha is especially notable." — New Republic Posted May 27, 2008
	76%	Padre Nuestro (Sangre De Mi Sangre) (2007)	" Plot flaws and all, we can be glad that the picture was made -- because of its acting." — New Republic Posted May 27, 2008
	37%	Savage Grace (2007)	" Unfortunately for all its assets, especially Moore, Savage Grace leaves us somewhat empty-handed." — New Republic Posted May 27, 2008
	72%	Lust, Caution (2007)	" Lust, Caution asks some patience of us, but our patience pays off." — New Republic Posted Nov 7, 2007

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